---
type: "Bill"
title: "provide a penalty for the expenditure of public funds to influence the outcome of an election."
description: "provide a penalty for the expenditure of public funds to influence the outcome of an election."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 207"
citation: "South Dakota SB 207 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Campaign Finance", "Crimes", "Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Davis", "Duba", "Emery", "Hansen", "Hoffman", "Jensen (Phil)", "Nelson", "Nesiba", "Novstrup", "Perry", "Rohl", "Stalzer", "Stevens", "Wheeler", "Wittman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-01"
last_action: "2023-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48050da4-00f1-4ee4-badc-722e1865ba58"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24345"
source_hash: "bf664f8f0e5d62a892160806d0ee5f6a97449f20680802dc1726b00214b8aa33"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-sd"]
---

# South Dakota SB 207 (2023) — provide a penalty for the expenditure of public funds to influence the outcome of an election.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24345/248079)
2. **207B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/248908.pdf)
3. **Senate State Affairs Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24345/248979)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24345/251099)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **7–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **24–10** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **62–6** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **8–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Davis — primary (person)
- Duba — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Hansen — primary (person)
- Hoffman — primary (person)
- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
- Nelson — primary (person)
- Nesiba — primary (person)
- Novstrup — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Rohl — primary (person)
- Stalzer — primary (person)
- Stevens — primary (person)
- Wheeler — primary (person)
- Wittman — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-02-01** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 162 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Scheduled for hearing
- **2023-02-08** State Affairs Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 207B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-08** State Affairs Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 2
- **2023-02-13** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 24, NAYS 10 S.J. 253
- **2023-02-14** First read in House and referred to H.J. 292 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-01** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2023-03-01** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 4 `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-02** House of Representatives Deferred to another day , Passed, H.J. 467
- **2023-03-06** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 62, NAYS 6 H.J. 478
- **2023-03-07** Signed by the President S.J. 447 `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 506 `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Delivered to the Governor on 2023-03-08 S.J. 461 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-27** Signed by the Governor on 2023-03-27 S.J. 495 `executive-signature, executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/48050da4-00f1-4ee4-badc-722e1865ba58`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).